Supreme Court of India

Jaya Bhattacharya v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1325
Bench B.R. Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 25 February 2025

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Issue for Consideration Matter pertains to the entitlement of the appellant to pensionary benefits, when her unauthorised absence for twenty years was treated as extraordinary leave and her service was regularised. Headnotes† Service law – West Bengal Service (Death-cum-Retirement Benefit) Rules, 1971 – rr.28A, 175, 176(4) – Pensionary benefits – Entitlement, when unauthorised absence of leave treated as extraordinary leave – Appellant-government employee, remained absent from duty for 107 days and thereafter from 1987 to 2007 – Her allegations that though she joined the office and signed the

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